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- Comment on GrapheneOS partial offline backup? 2 weeks ago:
tried seedvault, that’s a broken mess that apparently nobody ever tested IRL.
like, I have two similar phones and I’d like to clone my main device, by trying the built-in seedvault backup thingy. perfect use case to test it, I did the backup, lost the device and I’m now trying to restore it to the new device. in the past was put off with the idiotic “verify you really got the passphrase” screen (you’re supposed to type in TWELVE words with your phone’s keyboard) and was like nah fuck that.
well, this time I persevered and entered the hidden interface for said operations. in it, two choices - backup to phone’s storage or to webdav. don’t have one of the latter ever since I booted the nextcloud atrocity off my systems so let’s try the on-device thingy.
naturally, it won’t let you choose where to store the fucking thing, nor tell you about where it’s at. ddg where the fucker stores the backup - it’s in
/sdcardin a dot-folder. for some reason syncthing doesn’t want to sync the fucking thing even though I tried it with a non-dot copy in another folder… man, fuck this, no normie is going through this shit so it’s a moot point even if it works.let’s try the webdav thing. I have nginx in front of all my self-hosted stuff and apparently it can do a simple webdav share, let’s go with that. after dicking around with paths and users and permissions it sorta works. fine, let’s connect it… nope. the internal webdav client doesn’t like that there’s no user/pass. setting up a basic-auth .htpassword file, trying to remember how to hash the password… ok, you like me now? nope, won’t work over http. seven hells fuck the fucker who conceived this crap.
wait, there’s a separate DAVx option, I’m already using it for calendar and contacts for radicale without https, maybe that works… it most certainly does not, one cryptic error after another, fuck you and the calyx “institute” and whoever let this loose on the populous.
so I give up - I’ll spin up a nextcloud docker instance; talk about waste, this bloated stack only for my FOSS device to talk to my FOSS server, because two devices I have root on, residing on the same fucking LAN 10 cm apart can’t talk to each other, madonn’…
so, phone #1 happily accepts DAVx and starts the backup. I’m observing the molasses-like “speed” and I’m trying not to dwell on all potential points of failure in this stack. after some time has passed, it’s finally done… or is it?
tapping the notification about it being “done” informs me that a buncha apps weren’t backed up because they weren’t used “recently”… who fucking told you to do that!? reviewing the backup UI shows there’s no way to fix this.
fuck it, let’s go over to phone #2 (fresh LineageOS install) and restore what did get backed up. the 12-word screen, fine, start restore… internal webdav - no go. DAVx - no go, you need to install it first. sigh… fdroid, davx, add mount… we done? yep, restore starts!
except, it doesn’t. every app is marked with an icon, indicating that you need to install it first. by hand, individually, 60+ of those. so not only does this useless piece of shit not restore the apps, it also doesn’t restore its data. before you ask, “backup my apps” is toggled ON in both places in the app and the restore flow lists app data (500 MB) and apps (1.6 GB) separately. at this point, I am fucking OUT.
how is a non-techie supposed to use any of this?! this is in its 10th or whatever version, don’t those people have relatives and/or friends who do other shit for a living, can’t you put one of those things in their hands and observe the uselessness of this crap?
software that’s a hassle to use (not to mention, doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do) is never ever getting used, that’s like the definition of useless.
- Comment on Privacy — why should I care 2 weeks ago:
aside from the usual counterpoints (it’s not hiding it’s deciding what to share), the main thing I see too often overlooked in such diatribes is that the decision you’re making now is coming to bite you in the ass five or 10 years down the road.
our chicken brains can’t comprehend that, we need a feedback loop; i.e. hot stove, touch it once - ouch, you ain’t touching it no more. that works.
but, light a cig and 20 years later you might get emphysema, wear a mask or you might catch COVID and get the long kind, don’t let the app with its kompromats firehose away your data or you might get pigbutchered or whatever - we don’t innately understand those things, not really.
so we have to make an odyssey’s pact - in our (rare) moments of lucidity we need to ensure that we’re not in any position to make any of those slip-ups.
it’s a forever moving target and you’ll never achieve full security. but you’re better off with it than without.
- Comment on Self-hosted media server to share with 5+ people? 3 weeks ago:
other than hardware (close to anything you got lying around + dirt cheap used 3.5" drives) I don’t see what the expensive part is. granted, if you follow the youtubers with their specialized builds with $400 motherboards and virtualize this and kubernette that, sure, that’s gonna cost you. but if you disable transcoding on the server and store standard 1080p h264/x265 files that practically anything can play, a humble 10+ year old PC will do just fine.
start small - you already have a PC of some sort, run jellyfin server on with a couple of movies and shows and make it work. once it works within your household, look into accessing it from the outside. once that works, add an user or two.
once you make all of that work then you can look at drawing up optimal specs and setting up a separate box and whatnot.
- Comment on Long-Time Linode User Considering Hostinger VPS – Is It Worth the Switch? 3 weeks ago:
linode is super-expensive, so it isn’t that hard to be cheaper. we had to use hostinger for a while (< 10 instances concurrently) and I didn’t like it. also I think they want you to prepay for the year which is a major turnoff. they use an inferior virtualization system, forgot which, and there were issues with availability. this was all about two years ago, no idea about their current offering and state, but I remember being glad to be rid of them.
- Comment on CalDAV Server Without Exposing Server? 5 weeks ago:
unless you really need it, set up sync to work only on your home network. you enter a new event when away and it stays on your device.
once you get home, it then syncs with radicale/syncthing/nextcloud/whatevers.
- Comment on Matrix dendrite ntfy websocket notifications are messed up. 2 months ago:
saw your other post as well, there’s so much stuff in your stack that you have to narrow your issues down to the malfunctioning item, there’s no way you’re gonna stumble upon someone with your exact setup.
start with existing element x apps communicating over matrix.org (use throwaway accounts if you don’t trust it) and unified push using ntfy.sh. if everything works there, then you can start replacing one by one of these until you achieve full functionality or something breaks.
- Comment on Soldering/De-soldering USB flash-drive Plugs 2 months ago:
there’s dosdude1 soldering away on NAND chips; this should be a walk in the park even for a hobbyist.
as to macgyvering, the S in USB is for “serial” and such a connection needs very few wires, three if I’m not mistaken. so an absent USB connector could be fixed temporarily with clips and wires and such.
- Comment on bypass controller on a cheap LED strip 2 months ago:
sure, thanks for helping out. got now a cheap hack for lighting my abode, commercial solutions are like 6-8x the price. the CRI is crap but it’s better than nothing.
- Comment on bypass controller on a cheap LED strip 2 months ago:
well, I sorted it. just like @fuzzy_feeling@programming.dev and others guessed, that was the correct spot to get the power from. the issue with the fluctuating voltage was due to my shitty multimeter, checked it with another one and boom, 12 V. well, no boom, that’s just an expression.
- Comment on bypass controller on a cheap LED strip 2 months ago:
that’s a solid line, I’m gonna try that. hopefully won’t burn nothing of value. thanks
- Comment on bypass controller on a cheap LED strip 2 months ago:
they are. and the voltage is fluctuating (for the fade in/out light effect) when measured there. so I need to find the fucker that’s doing that and bypass it.
- Comment on bypass controller on a cheap LED strip 2 months ago:
the whole thing (5 meter strip, remote, PSU/controller) cost like $5 total so I’m guessing that’s some ingenuity at play, like reusing strips meant for RGB lights and sumsuch
- Comment on bypass controller on a cheap LED strip 2 months ago:
measuring difference between ground plane and the various points didn’t give me a stable voltage. the black thingy leading to the 12 V line is a SS210 (search says that’s a schottky diode) and on its output the mentioned fluctuation is happening. on its input there’s some very low voltage happening, like sub 1V (got a shitty multimeter).
if I’m understanding this correctly, then this thing boosts the voltage but the fluctuation is happening somewhere else. in other words, there is no 12 V source on this board. or?
- Comment on bypass controller on a cheap LED strip 2 months ago:
they are white LEDs i.e. they shine white. the R G B leads are used to trigger them individually, for the running lights and whatnot. so when I bring 12 V to the V lead and GND to e.g. R, all the LEDs marked R (image) light up. when I then short R with G, then all R and G light up, etc.
- Comment on bypass controller on a cheap LED strip 2 months ago:
it’s a RGB strip but with white LEDs.
so when I bring 12 V to the 12 V lead and then GND to the R, G, or B contact, the respective LEDs light up. when I short them all (R+G+B) all the LEDs light up.
sure, I tried it with a known good 12 V PSU and it works, but I’d like to use this one and just bypass the light-show circuitry.
- Comment on bypass controller on a cheap LED strip 2 months ago:
I do, and when I check the 12 V wire, it fluctuates between 12 and 5 V (that’s the blink/fade thing) so I need 12 V before it gets mangled. where am I most likely to get it from?
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- Comment on Has anyone successfully self-hosted Firefox Sync? 4 months ago:
no help to you, but my god is it convoluted and complex; every year or so I look up if there’s been some change in that regard and every time I stop reading halfway through the setup instructions. maybe next year…
- Comment on PS5 Pro is struggling to improve some games, despite its power advantage 4 months ago:
Don’t follow the PS scene, but I gathered that’s an AMD APU in there? If so, what’s the desktop equivalent performance-wise?
- Comment on Store (and access) old emails 5 months ago:
I’ve set up a local mail archive with just dovecot + imap plugin. you don’t need the full mail server with postfix and whatnot, as it’s not intended to send anything anywhere, or even receive anything for that matter. it just sits there ready to be searched with thunderbird, no need for other complex solutions you’ve mentioned.
